Paris, June 21. Delegates of Western industrial Powers and Japan today postponed discussion of fresh aid for Pakistan until a political settlement of the conflict between East and West Pakistan is in sight. They represented the 11 nations to the aid to Pakistan consortium and had intended to arrange a date for a meeting with Pakistan Government officials for talks on future help. But a delegate said that they chose to “wait and see” what political settlement President Yahya Khan has to offer before they pledge further aid, “We just do not know when our next meeting will be,” he added.

The consortium heard a report by Mr. Peter Cargill, South Asia director of the World Bank who has just visited both parts of Pakistan for talks with the country’s economic and political leaders. Mr. Cargill denied press reports that he had recommended £210 millions emergency aid to Pakistan. Last year Pakistan received £158 millions from the Western countries and Japan to assist her current five-year economic plan. Last week the donor countries agreed to help India, who received £360 million last year. This year’s Indian request comprises £210 millions in the form of assistance linked to precise projects and £270 millions of general assistance. Mr. Cargill recommended that about £41.7 millions to be given as food.

About 120 Bengalis from London and Birmingham with placards reading “Foreign aid for Pakistan means genocide for Bangladesh” demonstrated outside the World Bank’s office as the consortium’s delegates gathered here. Police later herded them into a side street. “Pakistan is bankrupt,” one of the demonstrators said. “It’s rulers can only continue their brutal war of oppression against the people of Bangladesh if their economy is propped up with foreign economic aid and loans.”

Abdul Hamid Chowdhury, who is studying accountancy in London, said: “Economic aid [to Pakistan] at this stage is tantamount to financing the continued massacre of the people of Bangladesh. We are very concerned that a phony relief programme may be instituted in order to tap money, equipment, and other facilities for the Pakistan army.” Miss Razia Chowdhury, of the Women’s Association for Bangladesh in Britain, said: “I think that if the Western countries give aid to Pakistan they will be responsible for the genocide in East Bengal.”